Am 29.08.25 um 12:52 schrieb Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming:
On Friday, August 29th, 2025 at 1:52 PM, CL <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello,
hope you had a good festival at your national Day.
Regarding your question for the closest resemblance.
In my opinion and according my comparison between my privat computer
(Debian Trixie) and my business computer (I'm forced to use Windows 11
here) the closest from point of view of appearance is
* KDE
* Cinnamon
* Xfce
But under the hood the differences are big.
The most supporting features (e.g. GUI-software for configurations)
exists in KDE and Cinnamon.
My personell work horse is XFCE. But I wouldn't recommend it for newbies.
Also I wouldn't recommend pur Debian for newbies either. In my
experience pur Debian is extremely stable but needs some experiences.
From this point of view I would recommend Linux Mint (with Cinnamon) or
an Ubuntu flavour (e.g. Kubuntu for KDE). According to my information
from my internet "bubble" Mint is for newbies one of the best choices at
the moment.
Mint is a second row descendant of Debian. It's derived from Ubuntu
which itself come from Debian.
But if you can wait a couple of weeks you can try a further Mint flavour
derived directly from Debian. The Mint team just work on a version
called LMDE 7 which try to bypass the Ubuntu step.
Hi,
I am not a Linux newbie.
I believe Debian won't be too difficult for me to use.
OK, in such case it is a thing what you want to have
e.g.
- Having a more or less finished OS with only minor thing to do, but
also a lot of possibilities to configure and adjust on a GUI level
-> Go with KDE or Cinnamon
- Starting with an ugly beginning and configure most things for the
right look and feel by yourself. (Having "pain" and fun!!! ;-) ). Do a
lot with the terminal.
-> Go with XFCE
I think in the end the best advice to you might be test the several
options with an Live-Stick-Version or in a VM (e.g. VirtualBox).
You have to find your own way and your own best suiting distro/flavour.
This can be done only by trial and error.
BR
Christian
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mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards
Christian Lorenz
mailto:[email protected]
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Am 28.08.25 um 20:12 schrieb Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming:
Subject: Debian 13 Trixie GUI desktop environments
Good day from Singapore,
Debian 13 Trixie release notes:
[QUOTE]
The user can choose among different desktop environments to try: GNOME, KDE
Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, LXQt, and Xfce.
[/QUOTE]
Link: https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809
May I know which desktop environment is the closest resemblance to Windows 10
or 11?
By the way, Debian 13 Trixie was released on Singapore's Independence Day /
National Day on 9 August 2025.
Thank you.
Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individuals Singapore
GIMP = Government-Induced Medical Problems
29 August 2025 Friday 2.11 AM
